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AM Frequency of the Week: 560

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Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WIND
Nightime: WIND

DX/RETRO: anything heard on this frequency is mostly with WIND being off the air. Something that is quite rare these days. They can be partially nulled at my location, but usually it's not enough to produce any results. The only stations that I heard with WIND nulled are two DX tests by WHND (Monroe, MI) and WFIL (Philadelphia, PA). Everything else was heard with WIND off the air: KLVI (Beaumont, TX), KLZ (Denver, CO), KWTO (Springfield, MO), KMON (Great Falls, MT), WQAM (Miami, FL), WJLS (Beckley, WV), WHBQ (Memphis, TN), WMIK (Middlesboro, KY), WEBC (Duluth, MN), WVOC (Columbia, SC), CFOS (Owen Sound, ON), CJKL (Kirkland Lake, ON)
 
gar hi said:
When we went on Easter vacation to Miami in 1973, WQAM instantly became my favorite radio station because of their great music.

d other places even farther north on the coast.
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My experience on the East Coast is rather limited, but a few years ago, I spent a weak on Oak Island North Carolina. WQAM daytime was no problem there via saltwater path.

My first experience with WQAM came during the mid '70s during a week near Palm Beach. It was on the last legs of its top 40 heyday, but I still thought it was fantastic. I heard the song "Sir Duke" on WQAM, and still associate the song with that experience.

Fast forward to today, and I still have a couple of WQAM PAMS jingles in rotation on my Spotify and Apple Music playlists. (As I type this today, I'm listening to a "Can-con" playlist with a few CHUM jingles sprinkled in).
 
tvnut said:
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

It's WIND 24/7. Rarely a silent period these days, and I'm too close to the transmitter in Gary to null with success, but in the Westinghouse era, they went off after 2 a.m. news (and the Whiffenpoof song) Sunday night/Monday morning. Then I was able to pick up, on various nights, WFIL Philadelphia, KLVI Beaumont, Tex., KLZ Denver and KWTO Springfield, Mo.
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Never did get WFIL during the WIND signoffs years ago in the northern Chicago suburbs although I tried. Usually it was KWTO or KLZ.
 
wildthangjim said:
In west Houston, it's KLVI in Beaumont 24/7. Nighttime, in their null, it's a jumble and I've never officially ID'd anything. Not surprising I suppose with KWTO, WHBQ, KLZ, etc all nulling in my (KLVI's) direction. I've sometimes heard Spanish, maybe Cuba or one of the Mexicans.

Retro, in Tulsa early 70's, similar situation with KWTO being my relatively-close station. When they went off for maintenance, I recall hearing WHBQ and KLZ.
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KLVI actually is directional NW from its tower site in Bridge City...the signal isnt maximized toward Houston as it is toward Austin but its not a null either. Since the array was rebuilt in the 70s,the DEEP null WSW into Port Arthur no longer exists..it was soooo bad, there was no carrier but only sidebands...right on the main drag of Port Arthur...it is still a null but the carrier isnt nulled to zero and you can hear it quite well
I used to hear KLVI in NW Austin at night in the 70s...not sure if the ground system has been checked in years
 
WCJ said:
Orange County, TX it's all KLVI 24/7

Retro: In 1966 KLVI was off for Monday morning maintenance and WQAM was in for around 45 mins.
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If KLVI didnt go directional at night, we would get calls from QAM "IM HEARING YOU!! in my headphones!" Channel 1 on the remote control, lower and the guy at QAM would say "THANK YOU!! (click)"
AHhh the good ole days
 
The minor lobe in the KLVI Night Pattern IDF is equivalent to about 1.9 kW toward Michigan. But I suppose it could have been during the Experimental Period running nondirectional or on Day Pattern. It was very late at Night when I heard it. Did they run DX tests?
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
The best time is probably if you can null out WIND at some location, during CH when WFIL is on Day Pattern. Or be far enough away from other 560s to hear in on Day Pattern. I heard it between Bay City and West Branch, MI that way in the car.
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I've tried many times for WFIL, but never heard it here. WIND is just too strong at my location. They'd have to be off the air for me to have a chance.
 
Cx here in Northeast PA by me are a flipside of the same coin from you folks in the Midwest.
It;s WFIL here, ♫ 'day and night, night and day, in the silence of my lonely room ... '
One night here in the new den I did get CJKL.

On the converse from some of you folks, I've never heard WIND, either here or back in Queens near JFK Airport.

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How-EVVER! Perhaps someone here who is more adept at linking mP3 sound-bites can help me out with an unID from the morning of 2-14-77 back there in Queens. See, I don't know how to post a sound clip to here. I'll send it via eMail to any willing Samaratin volunteer who might relay it to this forum.
 
South Mississippi:

Day - nothing inland, KLVI starts to come in near the coast.
Night - News Talk 560 KLVI Beaumont, TX and Sports 56 WHBQ Memphis, TN
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
The best time is probably if you can null out WIND at some location, during CH when WFIL is on Day Pattern. Or be far enough away from other 560s to hear in on Day Pattern. I heard it between Bay City and West Branch, MI that way in the car.
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I'm more or less in the same boat ss Radioman. WIND is rather difficult to null, and they're not off very often. It doesn't help that I have a noise source on the lower end of the band, which I haven't been able to track down. Nothing too serious, just "not helpful".

Philly has always been tough duty for me. Aside from WPHT, I've only heard WIP a couple of times. In addition to WFIL, I used to try for (the former) WPEN and WIBG without any success.
 
cyberdad said:
I'm more or less in the same boat ss Radioman. WIND is rather difficult to null, and they're not off very often. It doesn't help that I have a noise source on the lower end of the band, which I haven't been able to track down. Nothing too serious, just "not helpful".

Philly has always been tough duty for me. Aside from WPHT, I've only heard WIP a couple of times. In addition to WFIL, I used to try for (the former) WPEN and WIBG without any success.
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Never caught WIBG either during it's Top 40 heyday, but not for lack of trying. WCAU/WPHT and WIP were the only ones caught here.
 
Daytime is a rather weak WIND. Nighttime is almost always WIND, except -- the last few months, it seems like WIND has been especially weak or even absent at night. I don't know why this might be. I've only heard KWTO once in that time, which oddly enough was a first for me. Years ago I picked up KLZ a few times, maybe when WIND was off.
 
icybluelake said:
Daytime is a rather weak WIND. Nighttime is almost always WIND, except -- the last few months, it seems like WIND has been especially weak or even absent at night. I don't know why this might be. I've only heard KWTO once in that time, which oddly enough was a first for me. Years ago I picked up KLZ a few times, maybe when WIND was off.
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They have an AUX at the WYLL Daytime site in Des Plaines, which is 1000 Watts Day/580 Watts Night Nondirectional. I meets all the new relaxed requirements for a main LIC facility. I think it would be a bad move technically to do that, but in today's radio, who knows. Maybe they are working on the LIC main array.

 
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Western Massachusetts here


Only station I can get day and night on 560 KHz is WHYN-AM, which is one of my locals on AM.

However at night, if I can null them out in just the right spot, I can hear a faint WFIL under WHYN occasionally.
 
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